Original poster: Devon Ferns <dferns@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Tesla list wrote:
Original poster: "Jim Lux" <jimlux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> >12V battery, inexpensive inverter, neon sign transformer, TC > > I thought of that, but is the battery enough to run the coil for a few > hours at least? > Which is why I think I need to make a pretty small one to make it work.
Standard car battery sized battery is about 50-100 Ah. That's somewhere around a kilowatt hour, so you could run a 400 W NST for 2 hrs.
Great, sounds like more than enough for the size I'll build.
Devon.